Robert van der Luijt

Today, the Council gave the final green light to a regulation establishing the first EU-level certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products. This voluntary framework will facilitate and encourage high-quality carbon removal and soil emission reduction activities in the EU, as a complement to sustained emission reductions. Carbon removals and soil emission reductions The regulation will […]

Container gardens that remove CO₂!? That’s nonsense, isn’t it? Well, it really can be. And we’re not talking about the plants that store CO₂ as they grow, because that doesn’t put sedum sod in container gardens. No, the low container gardens we just placed in Schiedam can remove up to 25 kilograms of CO₂ each,

After five months of observation, two of the three experimental plots at our pilot site in Spain demonstrate noticeably enhanced plant growth compared to the control plot, which received no amendments. This increase in vegetative growth suggests a positive impact of the applied treatments, offering preliminary evidence of improved soil health and growth conditions in the